790 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID,£. 



Hamilton Co., N. Y. (Paris). Recorded only from Ottawa, 

 Ontario; New York and doubtfully from California. Occurs 

 mainly on white ash. The elytra vary in hue from dull yellow- 

 ish-testaceous to dark brown. 



827 ( — ). Neoborus rufusculus Knight, 1923, 564. 



Oblong-oval. Color mainly as in key; head dull yellow, tylus, cheeks 

 and median line of front usually blackish; pronotum brownish-black, col- 

 lar, median line on disk, spot behind outer basal angle of each callus and 

 narrow basal margin, straw-yellow; membrane and veins brownish-fus- 

 cous; legs dull yellow, tips of middle femora, apical half of hind ones, base 

 of tibia? and middle of hind ones blackish; ventrals blackish, paler at 

 middle. Antenna? fuscous, joint 1 darker, one-third longer than width of 

 vertex, 2 three and one-fourth times the length of 1, 3 slightly longer 

 than 1, 4 two-thirds the length of 3. Beak reaching between middle 

 coxa?. Upper surface, except head and membrane, rather coarsely and 

 closely punctate, clothed with suberect yellowish pubescence. Length, 

 4.6 — 4.9 mm. 



Lakeland, Minn., June 14 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Recorded only 

 from New York. Breeds on white ash, Fraxinns americana L. 



828 (1043). Neoborus tricolor (Van Duzee), 1912a, 487. 



Elongate-oval. Head reddish-brown or paler, tylus in great part 

 black, its base and upper portion of cheeks piceous; pronotum, scutellum 

 and elytra shining black, rather thickly pubescent with fine grayish in- 

 clined hairs; cuneus white; membrane wholly dark fuscous; legs pale 

 greenish-yellow thickly hirsute with erect hairs; tip of beak and tarsal 

 claws piceous; antennae hirsute, dull yellow, the apical fourth of second 

 joint dusky; ventrals reddish-brown, clouded with darker. Vertex and 

 face broader than in amcemis. Pronotum longer, more narrowed in 

 front, its disk, except calli, coarsely, deeply and evenly punctate. Scutel- 

 lum and clavus transversely strigose, punctured between the strigse; 

 corium finely and closely punctate. Length, 6 — 6.5 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., June 4 — 26. Swept in some numbers from 

 ash sprouts in low dense woodlands of the White River bot- 

 toms. Recorded only from New Jersey and Missouri. It is our 

 largest species and easily known by the finely pubescent, black 

 upper surface and pale cuneus. 



829 ( — ). Neoborus vittiscutis Knight, 1923, 566. 



Oblong-oval. Color mainly as in key; head blackish, margin of 

 cheeks and lora? paler; pronotum black, spot near middle, a vague ray 

 behind each callus, and carina? of side margins yellowish; elytra black, 

 male; pale brownish-yellow with embolium, except tip, and outer margin 

 of corium black, female; cuneus pale translucent; membrane fuscous, 

 paler in female; legs straw-yellow, tips of tarsi only dusky; ventrals 

 black. Antenna? dull yellow, joint 1 one-half longer than width of ver- 



